DIGITALIZATION OF SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE STATE IN THE CONDITIONS OF CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (EXPERIENCE OF 2020)

Abstract

Aim. To identify and analyze new mechanisms for the implementation of constitutionally guaranteed social rights of citizens in the Russian Federation. Methodology. The study examines certain legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, as a result of their adoption in 2020 approaches to the mechanism for the implementation of certain social rights of citizens of the Russian Federation were changed. The research is based on the application of general scientific methods and techniques: analysis, generalization, induction, as well as on special methods of scientific cognition: formal legal, comparative legal. Results. It is established that, starting from 2020, the mechanisms for the implementation of constitutionally guaranteed social rights of citizens in the Russian Federation have been substantially transformed and supplemented through the development and introduction of «digital technologies». These circumstances cannot be ignored, since the digitalization of the mechanisms for ensuring social obligations by the state fills the constitutional and legal structure - the «social state» with new content. Research implications. The achieved results contribute to the development of the constitutional and legal theory and practice of the implementation of the mechanisms of the welfare state.